Adopted by the Board of State Charities, August 1, 1906; Approved by the State Conference, October 5, 1906 PREAMBLE The Ohio State Conference of Charities and Correction exists to discuss the problems of charities and correction, to disseminate information and pro mote reforms. It does not formulate platforms. I. MEMBERSHIPS 1. All persons who are interested in charities and correction may become members by registering their names and paying the annual fee. 2. The annual membership fee shall be $1.00. This fee shall entitle the members to the proceedings of the annual Conference and other publications of the Board of State Charities. an annual 3. Any board, institution or association may enroll as such by paying fee of $2.50. All persons officially connected with such boards, institutions or associations who may attend any annual conference shall be registered as members of such conference and shall be entitled to all the rights and privileges thereof.* 4. Membership fees shall be used for expense of securing special speakers and for compensation of reporter making stenographic report of proceedings of Conference. II. OFFICERS The officers of the Conference shall be a President, Vice-President, a second Vice-President and a Secretary. The President and Vice-Presidents shall be elected annually by the Conference, and the Secretary of the Board of State Charities shall act as Secretary of the Conference. III. COMMITTEES The standing committees shall be an Executive Committee and such other committees as the Conference or the Executive Committee may from time to time appoint. 2. The Executive Committee shall consist of the President, the Secretary and six members, three of whom shall be members of the Board of State Charities to be elected annually by the Conference. 3. The President, soon after the opening of the Conference, shall appoint three committees: On organization of next Conference, on time and place for next Conference, and on resolutions. Each committee shall consist of at least five members, one of whom shall be a member of the Board of State Charities. 1. IV. DUTIES OF OFFICERS The President shall be chairman ex-officio of the Executive Committee. He shall have authority to accept resignations and to fill vacancies in the list of officers and committees. shall 2. 3. In case of inability of President, the Vice-Presidents in their order assume the duties of President until such inability is removed. The Secretary shall be ex-officio Secretary of the Executive Committee and shall conduct all necessary correspondence of the Conference as directed by the Executive Committee. He shall receive all membership fees and accounts for the same to the Executive Committee. This section of the rules is not observed since the General Assembly has been making an appro priation for the Conference. 1. The Executive Committee shall have charge of all affairs relating to the Conference. Four members shall constitute a quorum. A meeting may be called at any time by the President and Secretary. The Executive Committee shall appoint all necessary sub-committees, including a Local Committee at place of meeting of next Conference. 2. The Committee on Organization shall nominate all elective officers, as well as members of Executive and other standing committees. The nominations of this committee shall be subject to the action of the Conference. 3. The Committee on Resolutions shall consider all matters referred to it. Resolutions introduced in the Conference shall be referred to this committee without debate. The report of the committee shall be subject to the approval of the Conference. 4. The Committee on Time and Place shall receive all invitations for next Conference and shall report to the Conference for approval the decision in regard thereto. The Executive Committee shall have the right to change the time and place, if necessary local arrangements cannot be made. 5. The Local Committee shall provide suitable rooms for holding sessions of the Conference and make all other necessary arrangements as may be directed by the Executive Committee. 6. Sub-committees shall perform such duties as may be assigned by the Executive Committee. VI. SECTION MEETINGS The Section Meetings are designed for familiar discussion. At the annual meeting each section shall select a chairman, vice-chairman and secretary for the following year, who in addition to the usual duties pertaining to such positions shall act as a committee on program for the section. Such committees shall co-operate with the Executive Committee in all matters pertaining to the Conference. VII. DEBATE In the debates of the Conference, speakers shall be limited to five minutes each, except by unanimous consent, and shall not be allowed to speak twice on any one subject until all others have had an opportunity to be heard. VIII. PAPERS AND ADDRESS Unless otherwise instructed or arranged, no person shall be allowed more than fifteen minutes for reading a paper or delivering an address. IX. AMENDMENTS These rules shall remain in force from year to year, unless amended, and all additions or amendments shall be submitted to the Executive Committee before being acted on by the Conference. Superintendent Ohio State Reformatory, 1901-1918 President Ohio State Conference of Charities and Correction, 1907 President American Prison Association, 1913 Dr. James A. Leonard, for 17 years superintendent of the Ohio State Reformatory, died at his residence 259 Grand Boulevard West, Detroit, Mich., Sunday, August 11, just eleven days after resigning his position at the reformatory and bringing to a close a career of more than 43 years in public service. Death was due to a hardening of the arteries. Burial was made Wednesday, August 14th, in Woodmere cemetery, Detroit. In the death of Dr. Leonard, the country lost one of its foremost men in prison affairs, and thousands of men and boys who have come under the influence of his fine character and kindly ways lost a friend. Nearly all of the more than 43 years that Dr. Leonard was in the public service were devoted to work of an educational nature and had to do with the moral and mental development of those under his care. The influences of his labors and the results of his efforts are immeasurable. As Browning puts it, he "has been awakening the little seeds of good asleep throughout the world." While not a politician in the sense of being a worker in organized political ranks, he took a great interest in public affairs. Because of his wide knowledge and experience he was a most successful and interesting leader. Dr. Leonard was a member of the International and the American Prison Associations and was president of the latter organization in 1913. He always gave the deepest and most earnest thought to prison affairs and wrote and read before the public many papers which were widely published in the United States and abroad. In 1910 Wooster University conferred upon him the degree of Doctor of Laws in recognition of his labors in humanitarian and educational fields. James Abraham Leonard was born September 12, 1854, on a farm in Black Log Valley, near Huntingdon, Pa. He was the eldest of a family of four sons and three daughters and was the only one of the brothers not connected with the iron and steel industry. Dr. Leonard spent his early boyhood upon the farm and attended country schools. He afterward pursued a course in a private normal school at Worthington, Ohio, and was later a student in a business college. In keeping with the traditions of the family, he was required to enter the mills after he left school and to learn the iron and steel business. When he mastered it, however, he turned his attention to educational work, to which he devoted the succeeding 25 years of his life. In 1885 he received his master's degree from Mount Union College. He proved a capable teacher in the district, township and city schools of the state, giving twenty years of active service along educational lines in Youngstown, Ohio. During that period Dr. Leonard also was county examiner for nine years and served as principal of ward schools and in the normal training department for several terms. In 1898 he was appointed to a position in the United States Interior *Reprint from Ohio State Institution Journal, September, 1918, published by Ohio Board of Administration. Department and for three years his labor proved an influential factor in the establishment of schools of letters and industrial training for the Indians. In 1901 he was appointed Superintendent of the Ohio State Reformatory, the affairs of which he administered for 17 years in a manner that drew the attention of penologists and welfare workers in all parts of the world to Ohio. His resignation, because of ill health, became effective on August first, last. On July 29, 1885, Dr. Leonard married Miss Elizabeth Annette Treat, a representative of the Treat family of Connecticut, and a direct descendant of Robert Treat, who for forty years was Governor of Connecticut. Surviving are the widow, two sons, James A., Jr., of Detroit, and Sergeant George Tod, Camp Upton; two daughters, Lucy, Detroit, and Laura (Mrs. Bennett W. Cooke), Chicago; three brothers, two sisters and his father. Dr. Leonard was a Knight Templar Mason. He served on the official Board of the First Methodist Church during his residence in Mansfield and for a number of years was the teacher of a large men's Bible class. DR. JAMES A. LEONARD-AN APPRECIATION Chaplain Ohio State Reformatory To understand a leader of men one must know the times in which he lived. Dr. Leonard was like all great men, a product as well as a creative force. He was fortunate in coming to his day's work just as the dawn was breaking the dawn of a wonderful day. When one stops to consider what has been happening since the beginning of this century he can hardly credit his sober estimates. To be sure the influences that have made this period so great were at work, quietly, for ages. It was an evolution moving from the beginning of time, but which had now reached its spiritual triumph in a mighty achieve Great men had been living and thinking and speaking-great men who were set against unjust and oppressive customs and who had caught a vision of better things for humanity. They had passed away leaving the world a little nearer the desired goal, which prophets had visioned. All at once it seemed as if the fragments of a twilight were uniting for a new morning. This day was to be a social day, in it humanity was to find deliverance and triumph; humanity was to give it plan and purpose, inspiration and passion. It meant an awakening of social consciousness; "social conscience and hence social betterment." There had been a long dream period but the time for action was at hand. |